There's already good research on this and countries become more nationalistic and anti-foreigner when under attack, regardless of where they started. If your theory of change was at all reflective of reality, Iraq would have been a cakewalk.

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Even when my book groups get disrupted by interlopers, I learn new things each time I read something! By the second reading of a good enough source, I am able to internalize certain things the author tried to bring attention to! Often the first time, I do not fully get my mind around the emphasis.

every time Trump tells the average supporter to open their mouth so he can spit in it, that's a W for us. The only way through is via endless humiliation. That's what being an American is now, a humiliated little piggy that squeals for more until it's too much. Prove me wrong!

There was slop before AI! There was corporate slop, marketing slop, ad slop, sequel slop, game slop, scholar slop, otakuslop, fandom slop, code slop. So many genres of slop ! Even musical slop in the form of uninspired genre repetitions! Even horrorslop, actionslop, sci-fi slop. So many slops!

counterpoint: landlords are all parasites, relica of feudalism and should go the way of Louis XVI

Found out about this amazing article by Tanzanian socialist Julius Nyerere while reading CLR James ! I love how he locates nationalism in European institutions blackpast.org/global-afric...

Capitalism is not just banks or oppressive institutions. Capitalism is a whole way of arranging subjectivity. Constructing your self based on purchases, designing your self to circulate currency or to be entrepreneurial, creating a selfhood is a capitalist process. Individualism is the metaphysics.

I hate seeing Black folks squabble over politicians that will never go as far as we need because they are trying to work in a system that will not allow for it. All US politicians are morally compromised because that's the price of admission for participating in colonialism.

The ability of men to have multiple sexual partners while women remain faithfully monogamous is a key tenet of capitalism.

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

More policing of the frontiers of empires or quarrels between global empires and regional empires are common in world history than are world wars. Trump got permission to attack Iran by McCain singing about how he wanted to Bomb Iran years ago. Both parties have whispered about wanting to bomb Iran

And they have a much longer genealogy in the "small wars" and "policing actions" of empire. Some eerie similarities between these attacks and the British "aerial policing" of Iraq in the 1920s.

“Civility's a foil for all the blood that stains the soil We never scratch beneath the surface of the sand Dialed-in dreams, dissociation This type of talk makes me wanna cry It took people in the street to make modernity complete Don't take a PhD to see it was a lie” - Nana Grizol

biblically accurate cannabis implies the existence of biblically accurate wake & bake

IMO this is how patriarchy uses women to groom other women. So many of my friendships have been cis straight self-proclaimed feminist women deciding that I’m not good at performing femininity or normalcy, so I need gender re-education in the form of a 90s makeover montage.

Idk weigh in if you’re neurodivergent, but have a preponderance of your peers tried to “fix” you? Like in their minds the problem is that you’re too blunt, nerdy or smart to be socially acceptable, so they take it upon themselves to “mentor” you by teaching you to be a different person?

Expectation: Congress exclusively holds the power to declare war Reality: The President unilaterally starts wars whenever and with whomever he likes, and Congress can't even be bothered to vote on whether to stop bombing schools, killing children and assassinating/kidnapping foreign heads of state

the podcast Platner is a self-described “longtime fan of” is also really into weird homophobia and Candace Owens fandom?

Ah this explains why he casually opines online about how Black people don’t tip. Because he’s a huge transparent racist who consumes tons of racist content and has accurately clocked that none of that is a dealbreaker for white folk even as their states are increasingly home to concentration camps

I can’t reproduce the heteronormative family unit. The best I can do is a homonormative mimicry of the familial institution which has oppressed me and continues to oppress me with its monopoly upon personal community. So my relationship with my parents will not be like my parents familial experience

it's so cool to decide you're Political Now and commit yourself to spending all your free time stewing in discussion about how the other side is Evil while having no idea what Your Side supports because you dismiss any criticism and just assume they're the opposite of Bad Guys

it's weird how when democratic leaders and electeds say it was good and smart to do extrajudicial killings, none of the people who get mad at me for saying that they said that get mad at them for saying it

You see, by bypassing congress, it means congress can't go out and buy a bunch of stock in defense and oil companies before the announcement of hostilities. And them not being able to wet their beaks is the real crime. Won't someone please think of Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio??

[commercial] REPUBLICANS: hi, we’re Republicans DEMOCRATS: and we’re Democrats R: we may not always agree on everything D: [laughs] we hardly ever do R: but what we do agree on is BOTH: [in unison] terrorist attacks on foreign countries disguised as good faith acts of democracy

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"But he bypassed Congress!" Seriously?? THAT'S your problem?? FUCK OFF. YOU'RE NOT HELPING.

"This is a violation of international law!" Int'l law is a joke; countries like the USA, the UK, France, Russia, China, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc., can apparently commit whatever crimes against humanity they want, and aside from calls to arrest those responsible, NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENS.

This shit is about to get really wild when trans men have to use the women's bathroom. You're about to have bearded dudes in a woman's restroom. Apparently that's more attractive than them just using the men's room. Kansas is fucking ass backwards, dawg.

It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

a group of autistic women is called a Stimpak

Using today to post "Shoulda voted Harris", about a week removed from more evidence surfacing that her lacking the moral fortitude to oppose this very kind of illegal military action contributed to her loss, reveals a special kind of childish uselessness. & doubly so for Black people doing that shit

My opinion on Iran is this: imperialist reasons for deposing Iran are different than goals of Iranian workers. Bomb Attacks on Iran by imperialists make it harder to organize generally, while economic crises due to currency devaluations may help to organize disenfranchised workers sometimes.

Had a sectarian anarchist share this with me and insist it had nothing to do with council communism while also telling me that the author was a fan of Luxemburg. Councils are councils. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/omar...

Conflict on social media is often prompted by the algorithms which is sure to find the most sectarian argumentative people on multiple sides of a given issue and show them each others posts. Arguing on social media is not activism. Organizing on social media might be sometimes. I avoid conflict.

Found an interesting political science book while arguing with my family that everyone engaging with the democrats is center-right in their politics. Lance Selfa seems to make an important case and one based in historical analysis so it could be useful www.haymarketbooks.org/books/431-th...

Remembering at this moment Elizabeth Warren giving Trump a standing ovation the second he started talking about taking military action against Iran. Our society is run by blood mad ghouls who would personally stomp in a child's skull if they could get away with it, which they often can.

death to america and israel

Revolutions can only come from below. We must support the efforts of all people who seek to overthrow their autocratic governments. And, at the same time, we must condemn every imperialist state that wages wars in its own interest, under the guise of promoting "regime change".

This is a blog that is a mix of autobiographical experiences in organizing and queer/trans/feminist analysis. I coin the concept of “Homosocialisms” based on Eve Sedgewick’s work. I am proud of this. open.substack.com/pub/critical...

Whatever political discussion we want to have is pointless if we can’t even agree putting kids in concentration camps is wrong. We can’t even agree to call concentration camps concentration camps. That’s not a political issue. Folks in the US just view humanity as optional.

united states collects wars like pokemon cards

You really can’t say certain things without getting medicalized or the cops called on you by Everyone from therapists to hotlines to family members and bosses and anyone else. Mass medicalization of the psyche is so total that nihilistic philosophy can get you committed. There is no freedom for us

The death drive that cannot be stemmed in a world of crisis is the tendency to put all companies on the stock market and the tendency of stock investors to reward companies that fire employees. The anti scam tendencies of wall street encourage capital self destruction. Maybe this is a long term good

Finance capitalism rewards destroying the demand and production base because investors are cagey about so many scams with more employees than market share. Finance capitalism is an inverse incentive for capital owners to one by one destroy the demand and production base that maintains capitalism.

If the direct extractive empires detach from the indirect older colonial post-empires of the occidental, there will be a crisis. Of course we must remember the disconnection is just competition among capital owners. Each capital owner is becoming more competitive as the rate of profit declines.